It is the time to start thinking about Advent again, and I realized that I did not post about what we did for our Advent Calendar last year. We like to do something special with the kids, it helps our whole family focus for the Christmas season. Another activity I like to do with the kids at Christmas is make an ornament together, and in my search online for ornaments, I came across a number of references to "Truth in the Tinsel" Advent ornaments. I looked them up and was impressed. It was going to be perfect to do with the kids being the ages they were. And are you kidding me? G being able to craft everyday? She was in heaven. I knew there were going to be busy days too so I did purchase the printable color in ornaments too, and there were many days that we colored one of those and glued it to a plastic lid, added a ribbon and voila! While looking up a few more things about this program, I also saw a neat way to organize the activities for the whole month - using Christmas paper and canning jars! Both of which I had a huge abundance, so that made a nice Christmas decoration on the top of our bookcases for the month, and the kids could hardly wait to pull down the next jar and see what was in it. (I did get a lot prepped before Advent started, due to Thanksgiving being so early, but I also adjusted things as we went too, and there were a few days that we couldn't get to it and we did 2 or 3 the next day...it was very flexible and easy to keep up with! And as I always do, if there was something I didn't think would work or if I had a better idea, we just did that instead. In fact I subbed in some ornaments we already had too!)
Here are the photos for each day, and check out the website or send me an email if you have more questions about it!
(Reading the last day on Christmas Eve right opening the cross with the devotions was so fitting and moving and a perfect way to focus our family Christmas celebration! Seeing the look on the kids' faces as they "got it" was probably one of my favorite parts of the whole month)
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